A virtual pilgrimage is "bringing" the Holy Land directly to people's homes this Advent after the war in Israel resulted in the cancellation of many planned pilgrimages.

Father Francesco Patton, custos of the Holy Land, in prayer at the chapel of the Seventh Station on the Via Dolorosa, in Jerusalem, during the Good Friday Via Crucis, March 29, 2024.

“Making the Holy Land known means transmitting the ‘Fifth Gospel,’ that is, the historical environment and geographical area in which the Word of God was revealed and then made flesh in ...